A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOne can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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